There were three comments on Geek Estate Blog this morning that I canned due to being blatant attempts to build links with specific keywords as anchor text. This type of link building is fairly easy to spot because the comments seldom add any value to…

I first met Geordie Romer at RE BarCamp Seattle a few months ago. During our SEO session, he volunteered his Icicle Creek site as a website to critique during the session, but we got a bit off topic and we didn’t really get to looking…

One of the dilemmas I face when launching a new Wordress site is whether I should use categories, tags or both to organize content. Both are good options, and when used properly, can be utilized effectively from an SEO perspective. Whatever you choose, stick with…

SEO is a confusing topic.  Many people run away from it because of a bunch of confusing jargon and the black box nature of Google’s ranking system.  Other people hire professionals to help boost their rankings.  I respect the pros that devote their lives to…

The more Google relies on authority and trust to rank websites, the more we’re going to see large, well financed sites dominating the SERPs (search engine results pages). Even a brokerage site with solid SEO isn’t going to be able to compete across the entire…

What is SEO?  Search engine optimization.  Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 4 years, you’ve surely heard of it…  But wait,  you are in the real estate industry, right?  This is an industry that has been dragged into technology kicking and…

Alright, so now who’s the pervert? I can’t believe you even clicked over to read this article, or can I? Actually, I can believe you looked and the reason I can believe it is because the title was out of the ordinary and it targeted…

Thanks for the encouraging emails I got from my last post, “Creative Link Building, Real Estate 101“. One of the questions that kept coming up was, “how do you determine domain authority / trust?” To answer this question, SEOmoz has a great video about domain…

There’s a fantastic article over on Search Engine Journal worth reading. The topic? How to Build an Authority Site from Scratch. For those of you who follow this blog closely, you probably noticed the post the other day about how Google’s algorithms have changed over…

Before we begin the creative link building process, its important to understand what search engines are looking for when ranking websites. I know, youʼve heard it before, Page Rank, Page Rank, Page Rank. Well, Iʼm here to tell you, forget about Page Rank! While PR…